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the periodic rainfall, and other circumstances, tend to 

 localize the parasitic ova in certain places, and thus 

 it is impossible for the cattle to avoid swallowing the 

 eggs while seeking to allay their intense thirst." 



Such are the facts recorded by an able and accurate 

 observer ; and Indian officers, who have placed themselves 

 under my professional care as sufferers from tapeworm, 

 have verbally confirmed the truth of Dr. Fleming's 

 statements in respect of many of these particulars. My 

 friend, Colonel Gribb, formerly of the Royal Artillery, 

 assures me that he has repeatedly witnessed the same 

 phenomena. 



Incidentally, Dr. Fleming also alludes to the presence 

 of cysticerci at the root of the tongue of oxen. On this 

 point he says : — " The largest beef measle I ever saw 

 was obtained from the side of the tongue, and when 

 unrolled in length was about one inch and a half." 

 Thus also, the Inspector General, in the Madras Journal's 

 Report alluded to, speaks of Major Biggs, the commis- 

 sariat officer in the Punjab, as having seen an animal 

 at Rawul Pindee, "in which immense clusters of these 

 cysts could be felt at the root of the tongue." 



Some have sought to point to these facts as a useful 

 means of diagnosing the existence of measles, or rather of 

 the disease called cestode tuberculosis, in the living animal; 

 but this suggestion is practically of no value, since, 

 as the Inspector- General himself has remarked, their 

 occurrence in this part of the body only takes place 

 in ce exceptionally severe instances " of the disorder. 



